Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

The lines with “there”

there 113 Back to T

  1. p. iv, line 91[…] solid and beautiful forms of the future where there are now no solid forms […]
  2. p. v, line 32[…] never give up believing and expecting and trusting. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person […]
  3. p. v, line 45[…] he has passed that way see after him! there is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or […]
  4. p. vi, line 61[…] itself . . . that it is profuse and impartial . . . that there is not a minute of the light or dark nor […]
  5. p. vi, line 67[…] reason that about the proper expression of beauty there is precision and balance . . . one part does not need to […]
  6. p. vi, line 79[…] time. What is the purpose must surely be there and the clue of it must be there . . . . and the faintest indication is the indication of the best […]
  7. p. vii, line 54[…] we enjoy you may enjoy. Did you suppose there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be […]
  8. p. vii, line 55[…] there could be only one Supreme? We affirm there can be unnumbered Supremes, and that one does not countervail […]
  9. p. vii, line 89[…] encouragement and support. The outset and remembrance are there . . there the arms that lifted him first and brace him best […]
  10. p. vii, line 90[…] that lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and comings. The sailor […]
  11. p. vii, line 104[…] be begotten the sinewy races of bards. If there shall be love and content between the father and the […]
  12. p. vii, line 107[…] the exuding of the greatness of the father there shall be love between the poet and the man of […]
  13. p. viii, line 12[…] the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men […]
  14. p. ix, line 63[…] romances. As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances […]
  15. p. ix, line 73[…] wins the inner and outer world and that there is no single exception, and that never since our earth […]
  16. p. ix, line 83[…] the soul is only a fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any of the continents of the […]
  17. p. x, line 106[…] the wandering stars or fixed stars by those there as we are here . . or that is henceforth to be […]
  18. p. xi, line 85[…] stars and learns one of the meanings. Now there shall be a man cohered out of tumult and chaos […]
  19. p. xi, line 92There will soon be no more priests. Their work is done […]
  20. p. xii, line 70[…] that of its poets. The signs are effectual. There is no fear of mistake. If the one is true […]
  21. p. 14, line 5You shall possess the good of the earth and sun . . . . there are millions of suns left,
  22. p. 14, line 11There was never any more inception than there is now,
  23. p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  24. p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  25. p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  26. p. 17, line 4The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  27. p. 17, line 5And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  28. p. 17, line 32It is so . . . . I witnessed the corpse . . . . there the pistol had fallen.
  29. p. 18, line 19I am there . . . . I help . . . . I came stretched atop of the load,
  30. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  31. p. 20, line 6Each has his main-sledge . . . . they are all out . . . . there is a great heat in the fire.
  32. p. 20, line 16I behold the picturesque giant and love him . . . . and I do not stop there,
  33. p. 21, line 3I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
  34. p. 25, line 8There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  35. p. 25, line 20Who goes there! hankering, gross, mystical, nude?
  36. p. 26, line 30And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  37. p. 27, line 2It is a trifle . . . . they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  38. p. 28, line 13There is no better than it and now.
  39. p. 28, line 15The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  40. p. 30, line 17I dote on myself . . . . there is that lot of me, and all so luscious,
  41. p. 33, line 11I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
  42. p. 33, line 32And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  43. p. 36, line 2Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,
  44. p. 39, line 8I am the man . . . . I suffered . . . . I was there.
  45. p. 40, line 3I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again.
  46. p. 41, line 1The maimed and mangled dug in the dirt . . . . the new-comers saw them there;
  47. p. 41, line 12His was the English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  48. p. 42, line 9Toward twelve at night, there in the beams of the moon they surrendered to us.
  49. p. 43, line 7I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.
  50. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
  51. p. 46, line 4Putting higher claims for him there with his rolled-up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel;
  52. p. 47, line 9Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,
  53. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  54. p. 49, line 23There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
  55. p. 50, line 10I know I was even there . . . . I waited unseen and always,
  56. p. 51, line 14There is no stoppage, and never can be stoppage;
  57. p. 51, line 20See ever so far . . . . there is limitless space outside of that,
  58. p. 51, line 21Count ever so much . . . . there is limitless time around that.
  59. p. 51, line 22Our rendezvous is fitly appointed . . . . God will be there and wait till we come.
  60. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  61. p. 54, line 4And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe,
  62. p. 54, line 10Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
  63. p. 54, line 25I hear you whispering there O stars of heaven,
  64. p. 55, line 4There is that in me . . . . I do not know what it is . . . . but I know it is in me.
  65. p. 55, line 16Listener up there! Here you . . . . what have you to confide to me?
  66. p. 58, line 13What is there you cannot give and take?
  67. p. 59, line 9There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,
  68. p. 59, line 13It is hinted by nearest and commonest and readiest . . . . it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them . . . . What is there ready and near you now?
  69. p. 59, line 15You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  70. p. 60, line 20The President is up there in the White House for you . . . . it is not you who are here for him,
  71. p. 61, line 7Can each see the signs of the best by a look in the lookingglass? Is there nothing greater or more?
  72. p. 61, line 8Does all sit there with you and here with me?
  73. p. 61, line 26Manufactures . . commerce . . engineering . . the building of cities, and every trade carried on there . . and the implements of every trade,
  74. p. 66, line 20He is decently put away . . . . is there anything more?
  75. p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
  76. p. 67, line 8To think how much pleasure there is!
  77. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
  78. p. 68, line 20But there is more account than that . . . . there is strict account of all.
  79. p. 69, line 5And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed . . . . and that there is no life without satisfaction;
  80. p. 70, line 1I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
  81. p. 70, line 9How solemn they look there, stretched and still;
  82. p. 71, line 15I am a dance . . . . Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.
  83. p. 74, line 20But the red squaw never came nor was heard of there again.
  84. p. 79, line 11There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them and in the contact and odor of them that pleases the soul well,
  85. p. 81, line 11And wonders within there yet.
  86. p. 81, line 12Within there runs his blood . . . . the same old blood . . the same red running blood;
  87. p. 81, line 13There swells and jets his heart . . . . There all passions and desires . . all reachings and aspirations:
  88. p. 81, line 14Do you think they are not there because they are not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms?
  89. p. 83, line 25An unceasing deathbell tolls there.
  90. p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;
  91. p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  92. p. 89, line 1CLEAR the way there Jonathan!
  93. p. 89, line 27But there is one thing that belongs here . . . . Shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
  94. p. 90, line 13THERE was a child went forth every day,
  95. p. 90, line 18And the March-born lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, and the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side . . and the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there . . and the beautiful curious liquid . . and the water-plants with their graceful flat heads . . all became part of him.
  96. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  97. p. 93, line 12It is good to live in this age . . . . there never was any better.
  98. p. 94, line 14If there be any soul there is truth . . . . if there be man or woman there is truth . . . . If there be physical or moral there is truth,
  99. p. 94, line 15If there be equilibrium or volition there is truth . . . . if there be things at all upon the earth there is truth.
  100. p. 95, line 16And there is another paradox.